Staff

Dodd Loomis is a director, producer, and writer with over two decades of experience spanning Broadway, international festivals, television, and large-scale live events. He served as Assistant Director on Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark and as Supervising Resident Director for the global and national tours of The Lion King. His directing and producing credits include Off-Broadway productions and international festival work across five continents.

Loomis is also an accomplished writer, having written original material for ABC Television and Disney Cruise Lines. As Senior Producer of Live Events at Live Nation, he produced major experiential activations, including work at Electric Daisy Carnival, where he was awarded the Reggie for Best National Immersive Activation. In academia, Loomis has served as a professor at Tulane University, teaching in the three different schools of Theatre & Dance, Film, and Arts Management. His work has earned recognition including Obie, Ovation, and Drama Desk nominations.

Clint Bowie (he/him) is the Artistic Director of the New Orleans Film Society, where he manages the curation of the organization’s year-round programming, including the Academy Award–qualifying New Orleans Film Festival, the New Orleans French Film Festival, and the organization’s artist development programs: Southern Producers Lab, Emerging Voices Directors Lab, and South Pitch. He has served on review committees for ITVS, Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, United States Artists, FilmNorth, and Latino Public Broadcasting, and has spoken on panels organized by Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, Center for Asian American Media, The Gotham, Film Fatales, Palm Springs International ShortFest, ArtHouse Convergence, and the Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris. He has been invited to serve on juries at film festivals including Denver, Florida, Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, RiverRun, Independent Film Festival Boston, and others. He is currently on the Advisory Board for the Overlook Film Festival and was formerly a board member for Film Festival Alliance. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and previously worked as a print journalist at publications across the country.

Lisa Davis, (she/her/hers) specializes in fundraising, marketing, and community engagement. Before NOFS, she served as the development director at several private independent schools and ran her brand marketing consulting firm, Founded. Lisa is a proud New Orleanian, deeply committed to the betterment of the community and passionate about supporting the arts and culture. She enjoys volunteering at nonprofit events, attending festivals, and learning more about the world through travel. She is a member of Salon 22, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and founder of Mom Force a subkrewe of Chewbacchus.

Juliana Goode (she/her/hers) has held various positions with NOFF since 2016 before stepping into her current role as Director of Operations. Originally from New York, she moved to New Orleans to study film and has called it home ever since. While her love for the art brought her to NOFS, she found her stride in keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes. Juliana is fueled by the organized chaos of operations, a strong cup of coffee, and the unwavering support of her dog.

Torie Nugent-Peterson is a Fundraising and Marketing Professional with extensive experience in multiple industries. Torie received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at Florida State University before pursuing acting professionally in Chicago, IL. After reading the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2017 annual report, Torie became increasingly anxious about the future as it related to climate change. She moved to New Orleans and worked with frontline communities advocating against petrochemical expansion in the chemical corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, known as Cancer Alley. After moving to central Louisiana (CenLA) she began working remotely for a national healthcare payment reform non-profit, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR). She spent three and half years developing and leading CPR’s marketing strategy before the shuddering of the beloved LAN project, which CPR was prime-subcontractor to Deloitte, forcing CPR to considerably downsize. Torie feels abundantly blessed to have landed at the New Orleans Film Society where she can marry both her technical expertise as a marketing professional, to learn from an incredible team of leaders about all things fundraising, and to be involved in an industry with her first love, film.